Our day started at the Animal Kingdom. It wasn't too crowded this morning even after we left our character breakfast as the Tusker House. The Tusker House character breakfast is a high energy breakfast. There's a parade around the restaurant where children can participate with shakers and drums. If you look up the definition of 'loud' in the dictionary there's probably a picture of the Tusker House restaurnt in the description. Wow! However, I do love the food and buffet setup.

We saw 'It's Tough to be a Bug.' We both love the show, but everytime we go into the theater we see children under 5 or 6 sitting there crying or burrying their heads in their parents arms. I guess they did too good of a job creating this show. It's so realistic that it's frightening. Hopper maybe one of the best animatronic characters in all 4 parks.

We took a nice afternoon break in our room. We needed the rest. The heat and past couple of days were starting to wear on us a bit so the 3 hour rest was nice.

Our trip to Downtown Disney went well. We made stops at Goofy's, Earl of Sandwich, Team Mickey, and TrenD, and World of Disney. I picked up some boxes of Mickey-shaped rice krispy treats. Just a note...Disney does not ship food from Disney World to your home, or even to your resort. If you buy food don't expect to have it shipped. It's against Disney policy.

We took a bus from Downtown Disney to the Polynesian where we caught the monorail to the Magic Kingdom. We dined at Cosmic Ray's. Nothing special; however, I was very surprised how slow the restaurant was at 7:00PM. In fact, the Magic Kingdom was not very crowded tonight. The Summer Nightastic fireworks are wonderful. For those of you who are coming this summer it's a real treat. They are great! We arrived back at AKV around 11:15.

One note about our dining plan experiences. We've used 2 TS, 2 QS, and 6 snack credits. We still have 2 TS, 2QS and 2 snack credits to use with 2 days to go. We check out on Saturday. We will be dining at Cape May and Mama Melrose. As for the QS credits that will be a day to day decision. Hopefully, we can get through all of them.

Tomorrow we are sleeping in. Once we get up and get moving we'll be heading to the pool. Later in the afternoon we have an ADR at the Cape May clam bake. Since we'll be near the boardwalk we'll probably either go to EPCOT or Hollywood Studios.

We Just woke-up about 30 minutes ago. We did sleep pretty hard this morning.

We are headed out to the pool in about 30 minutes. Another great morning weather-wise. We'll probably spend about a couple hours at the pool, then grab a small bite to eat. We just want to enjoy the resort today.

Tonight we are headed to the Beach Club for dinner. We have an ADR at the Cape May clam bake. Afterwards we'll probably head to EPCOT or Hollywood Studios for some night time fun.

Hi Everyone. We had a wonderful day today. It was very relaxing. We were able to sleep in this morning and recharge our batteries. We needed it to. Spending about 3 hours at the pool was also very nice. Anna and I had a lot of fun using the water features at Kidani Village. The weather was very nice, but wow was the sun intense today. The humidity has been low since we arrived on Tuesday, but the sun UV index seems extreme; lots of sunscreen and lots of water for sure.

I thought dinner at Cape May was very good tonight. I really enjoyed the BBQ ribs and the breaded fish nuggets. I never had breaded fish nuggets taste so good. These were large with a light, crispy batter. I want more!

We spent the rest of our evening walking around World Showcase. We caught Illuminations tonight. I think I could watch that show every night. I love it! We have to watch it at least one more time this trip.

Tomorrow we are planning to be at Hollywood Studios for rope drop. It's Star Wars Weekend 4 and we want to get some autographs and photos with the Star Wars costumed characters. We plan on catching the Star Wars parade at 11:40AM with some folks from Studios Central. Hopefully, we'll get back to DHS at around 6:00PM because I really want to watch 'The Hyperspace Hoopla' at 7:00PM. I hear it's really funny.

We will be leaving soon to head over to Hollywood Studios. It's Star Wars Weekend 4 Saturday. Our hope is to see a lot of the costumed Star Wars characters. We'd like to get autographs and pictures with them. I hope to see a lot of you at our parade meet today near the tip board on Hollywood Blvd.

Kim arrives today and we are very excited to see her. If everything is on time she should meet us at Hollywood Studios around 11:00AM. We have a lunch ADR at Mama Melrose at 12:50. I think it's 12:50??? I'll have to check E-Ticket to make sure. E-Ticket has been a real blessing this trip. I've been living off of the custom itinerary I built before this trip.

We'll probably head back to Hollywood Studios tonight. I want to see the Hyperspace Hoopla at 7:00PM.